Save the date for the celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. Founded in 2005 and launched in 2009, CHPS begins its year-long anniversary celebration with a visit by Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). February 1, 2019 – 3:00 pm […]
In the Fall of 2019, UF welcomed many new faculty with scholarly interests in the Humanities. Previous Years: In fall of 2018 more than thirty new faculty members with scholarly interest in the humanities joined UF as part of the Faculty 500 initiative. At our […]
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There is a wealth of knowledge to be gleaned by studying Caribbean communities past and present. Two emerging scholars at the University of Florida know this well. With support from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Tedder Doctoral Fellowships Matthew Strickland learned how religion and slavery were intertwined in 19th-century Barbados and […]
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The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is excited to announce that Dr. Barbara Mennel has agreed to an appointment as our new Rothman Chair and Director of the Center. Dr. Mennel is an accomplished scholar and teacher whose work bridges multiple disciplines in the humanities, from film studies to women’s studies, from […]
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Date: October 14, 2017 GAINESVILLE, Fla. —UF has received a three-year $400,000 grant award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the integration of humanities perspectives and methodologies into general education and advanced courses that address “grand challenge” questions. “We want all our students to have an exceptional college education, and that means engaging […]